Bob Ellis
About Bob Ellis
- Also Known As
- Robert A. Ellis
- Affiliations
- ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Public Policy Program, Program Chair
- Bio
Bob was first elected to the EC around 1977, co-chaired the 1980 conference in Seattle, and was the EC person responsible for all the annual SIGGRAPH conferences during most of the 1980s. He retired in 1995 from both gainful employment and SIGGRAPH.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH 1985: Panels
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
- Leadership History Overview
- Pioneers Steering Committee Member: 2023-2024 - 2022-2023 - 2021-2022 - 2020-2021
Conference Contributions
- Experiences
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- Presentations
- Sessions Moderated
- “Beyond Copyright: The Brave New World of Digital Rights Management” by Burk, Ellis, Neville, Simons and Stein
- Courses Organized
- “The Impact of Public Policy on Computer Graphics” by Ellis and Simons
- “Introduction to the Impact of Public Policy on Computer Graphics” by Ellis and Simons
- “Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Digital Rights Management for Computer Graphics” by Ellis, Burk and Simons
- “Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Digital Rights Management for Computer Graphics” by Ellis, Burk and Simons
- “App of Computer Graphics to Eng Scientific and Design Problems” by Ellis, Kasik, Coates and Littlefield
SIGGRAPH Organization Contributions
Other Information
- Roles
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Moderator
- Panel Presenter
- Panels Organizing Committee Member
- Technical Paper Presenter
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